October 4: Forks Market opens; RCMP officers down; Air Mail begins.

October 4, 1989 - The Forks Market
opens. The building was the transportation garage and vehicle
storage for Canadian National Express, CN's national courier division. (For more on CN Express in Winnipeg.)

October 4, 1935 – Two Manitoba police officers are killed: Constable William Wainwright of the Benito Police Department and Constable John Shaw of the R.C.M.P., Swan River detachment. Wainwright was 50 years
old, a long time resident of Benito, with a wife and four grown
children. Shaw was from the Sifton, Manitoba area and engaged to be
married.

The two were transferring three men: Joseph Posnikoff; Peter Woiken;
and John Kalmakoff, from Manitoba back to Pelly, Saskatchewan where they
were wanted for questioning in a robbery. Just outside Pelly, one
suspect overpowered Wainright with a knife, took his gun and shot the
two officers to death.

The three fled in the car until they meet
an RCMP roadblock outside in Canmore, Alberta. In the ensuing shoot-out
another suspect is killed along with two more R.C.M.P. officers. The
remaining man fled into the bush but a manhunt finds him and he is
killed. In all, seven lives were lost.